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Cancer is the plague of our generation. The leading cause of death worldwide, cancer accounted for 7.6 million deaths or 13% of all deaths in 2008 (World Health Organization (WHO), Cancer (fact sheet #297), Geneva: Author). Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths). In 2012, 577,190 U.S. citizens or 23.3% of all deaths in the United States were attributed to this deadly, invasive disease (American Cancer Society (ACS), Cancer fact and figures, Atlanta: Author; National Center on Health Statistics, U.S. mortality 2007, Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). In their 2010 report, ACS projected that 1,529,560 new cancer cases would be diagnosed that year. For each of those numbers, a team of professional caregivers (physicians, nurses, hospice workers, aides, technicians, etc.) and from one to dozens of family caregivers provides life-sustaining support to the individual with cancer (Nijboer et al., Cancer and caregiving: The impact on the caregiver’s health, Psycho-Oncology 7(1), 3–13; Nijboer et al., Determinants of caregiving experiences and mental health of partners of cancer patients, Cancer 86(4), 577–588). With this domino effect, the numbers of patients and family caregivers, plus the numbers of impacted professional caregivers could be added to determine the pervasive impact of cancer on the states and the world.
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Talley, R.C., McCorkle, R., Baile, W.F. (2012). Cancer and Caregiving: Changed Lives and the Future of Cancer Care. In: Talley, R., McCorkle, R., Baile, W. (eds) Cancer Caregiving in the United States. Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3154-1_16
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